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Interview ... Keli Lane has spoken publicly for the first time since her conviction. Pic: Nathan Edwards
Source: [url]http://www.news.com.au/national/keli-lanes-500000-plea-from-jail-to-daughter/story-e6frfkvr-1226032724733[/url]
[release] Channel 7 posts $500,000 reward
Wants information on Tegan Lane
Keli Lane claims she is innocent
CHANNEL Seven has posted a $500,000 reward for information regarding the whereabouts of Tegan Lane - the baby daughter Keli Lane was convicted of murdering.
The move is attached to the Sunday Night program's exclusive interview with Lane - her first since being found guilty of murder last December - in which she maintains her innocence and her hopes of finding Tegan alive.
Lane maintains Tegan's alleged biological father Andrew Norris (or Morris) took custody of Tegan, despite extensive police investigations that failed to locate the pair.
"Someone might ring in now that hasn't seen the news before, or didn't put two and two together, and have some information that either leads straight to Andrew or Tegan now that she's old enough to sort of have her own connections with people," Lane says in a series of audio conversations from prison, where she is awaiting sentencing on April 15.
"She's old enough to ask questions: 'Why do I look different?' or 'Why don't I have a passport?' "
Lane, a former champion water polo player, gave birth to Tegan at Auburn Hospital on September 12, 1996.
Two days later, she attended a friend's wedding with no sign of the baby.
During subsequent inquiries and her eventual murder trial, Lane's honesty was called into question.
"The only reason for the lies and the secrecy is to be private," Lane says during the interview.
Sunday Night has also secured a copy of the diary Lane kept during the court proceedings. "I wonder how I got here," she writes.
"Why did I make those choices? The Crown likes to suggest this is like a puzzle. My life is not a game. If it is a game, then game on."
A reward poster released as part of the story reads:
"WANTED in connection with the disappearance of Tegan Lane, Andrew Norris (possibly known as Andrew Morris). REWARD $500,000."It also gives a description of Norris: "Male, Caucasian, blonde to mousy hair, 180cm, age 44. Worked in Sydney CBD in finance or stockbroking. May have grown up in Sydney's inner west. May have attended Sydney University."[/release]
Shes proberbly buried somewhere out of Sydney on a deserted road
How can you be tried for murder if they don't know if she's dead?
Except she's not dead, atleast not at the hands of the mother, and there is no evidence otherwise.
So, should presumption of innocence apply?
So she says that the biological father took the child, police were never able to find either of them, so she gets booked for murder?
I feel sorry for her if shes telling the truth, must be horrible to not only lose your kid, but then be locked up in a cage for god knows how many years after being accused of killing them.
What would be more annoying again is if in 5 years time if some new evidence turned up which cleared her name, then she gets released and they go 'Oh well, our bad' after they just caused someone to lose 5 years of their life.
[quote][B]At the heart of the Crown's appeal was that Lane's lies [/B]– those concerning Andrew Morris, Andrew Norris, and the story that she gave Tegan to a "Perth couple" - [B]were indicative of Lane's guilt.[/B][/quote]
The prosecution also provided evidence as her motive, and it didn't help that she hid the pregnancy from her family and a lover.
There was an inquest into the baby's disappearance, and the coroner concluded that the child was almost certainly dead.
After a [B]decade[/B] of searching for Andrew Norris/Morris, the police concluded that he did not exist, and court proceedings commenced against her.
There are also tapped phone calls where she admits her guilt.
[QUOTE=Lilolia;28967706]What would be more annoying again is if in 5 years time if some new evidence turned up which cleared her name, then she gets released and they go 'Oh well, our bad' after they just caused someone to lose 5 years of their life.[/QUOTE]
She'd probably still have been in prison for a while because she was also convicted of lying about her other children which she gave up for adoption.
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